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When the Dust Settles – Nicky Broekhuysen & Mine Kaplangi

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By Nicky Broekhuysen & Mine Kaplangi When the Dust Settles An unsettled experimentation on a 2016 exhibition The Digital Archaeologist Keywords: media archaeology; binary code; collaboration; digital archive; experimentation I have realised that there is no final ‘ordered end point’ rather there is just the space through which one passes on the journey to discovering […]

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Computational Constructions of Time and Deep Futures in John F. Simon’s Every Icon (1997) – Katherine Mitchell

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By: Katherine Mitchell Computational Constructions of Time and Deep Futures in John F. Simon’s Every Icon (1997) A media philosophy of (deep) time Keywords: temporality; computation; obsolescence; internet; aesthetics In an age of rapid technological obsolescence and pervasive discourse on communication technologies’ phenomenological annihilation of time and space stands a body of media theory preoccupied

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Air Raid Camera Roll – Clemens Poole

CREATIVE, ESSAY, IMAGE, TECHNOLOGICAL PRESENT /

By: Clemens Poole AIR ALARM CAMERA ROLL Keywords: Ukraine; Lviv; war, war photography, digital practice Project Statement Russia’s invasion of Ukraine plays tricks with time. War compresses aspects of the past and flattens expanses of the present. There are, of course, the grand narratives; the past is brought back, or projected into an imperial future

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Towards a fourfold digital weaver theory: notes on a past-future praxis – Karl Logge

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By: Karl Logge Towards a fourfold digital weaver theory: notes on a past-future praxis Keywords: Weird design, Weird digital, Weaver Theory, Speculative Fourfolding Cyborg informatics, recrafting bodies / Artificial intelligence, C31 operations codingMultiple databases, umbilical network / Breath engine, indestructible heart…We are the first to program your future / We are the first of cyber-

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Killing Time – Leah Packard-Grams

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By: Leah Packard Grams Killing Time: Reading Ancient Text-Artifacts in the Digital Realm Keywords: papyrology; digital humanities; digitisation; accessibility, time Introduction The field of papyrology appeals to many scholars because these ancient papyri (most of which have been excavated from Egypt) preserve texts in the very handwriting of the people who wrote them. The handwritten

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